I can’t wait to see what PD Diary has to say about this:

 Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has the human form of mad cow disease.

 

Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state’s director of communicable disease control, confirmed Sunday to The Associated Press that tests are being done to see if the patient has Creutzfeldt-Jakob (KROYTS’-felt JAY’-kuhb) disease, and whether it’s the variant attributed to mad cow.

There have only been three cases of the human form of mad cow disease reported in the United States in the last several years, and officials say it’s extremely unlikely the patient in Cape Cod Hospital has the disease.  [Boston.com - via reader tip]

The fact that this probably isn’t mad cow disease probably won’t matter to the protesters who are eager to find anything to restart their mad cow hysteria again.

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